Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
‘Identical twins, Roselle, N. J.’
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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
1926 - 1971
‘Identical twins, Roselle, N. J.’
gelatin silver print, a plate from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970), the photographer's facsimile signature label, signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, titled and dated 1967 and 1973 by Neil Selkirk and with the photographer's reproduction and portfolio stamp, editioned 14/50 in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse
image: 14 ¾ by 14 ¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1966, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk.
Private collection
Sotheby's New York, 2 October 1996, lot 399
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 69
Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, New York 1972, cover and unpaginated
New Photography USA, London 1972, unpaginated
Sarah Greenough, et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, Washington, D. C. 1989, pl. 359
Ned Rifkin, Jane Jackson, et al., Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta 2000, p. 86
Diane Arbus: Revelations, New York 2003, pp. 182, 265, and 270-1
Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty, Los Angeles 2004, pl. 115
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and Anne Higonnet, Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, Lincoln 2008, pl. 51
Quentin Bajac et al., eds., Photography at MoMA: 1960–Now, New York 2015, pl. 1
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967, New York 2017, pp. 35 and 136
John P. Jacob, Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs, New York 2018, pl. 4 and p. 71
Jeff Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2020, p. 79
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